On Tuesday 28 April 2009 01:43:05 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > >> What would be a good choice, for a desktop search engine, > >> since have TB of Music and Video, and GB of .pdf files, > >> would like to index all, including metadata... > > > > I have not used any of them extensively, but from playing around > > with Beagle and Tracker, I prefer Tracker. Tracker is supposed > > to be lighter on resources than Beagle. Tracker also does not > > depend on Mono, if you care about that sort of thing. > > > > Another option is Strigi, which has community connections to > > KDE (but it does not have KDE or QT dependencies). > > Correction, the Strigi daemon does not have QT or KDE > dependencies. The default client, however, is in QT.
I am currently running recoll which seems the least intrusive. I you want to use nepomuk, you are stuck with the strigi stuff. Nepomuk, even with NO indexing, is a system-hawg. Ihave to manually renice it just to make KDE4 usable. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
